Vocabulary - Music Theory 1 - Semester 1 Pd 3

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Music

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Organized sound that expresses ideas, thoughts, emotions, and opinions

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To bring something original into existence from one’s own mind and imagination

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Create

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Half Step

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The smallest distance between any two keys on the piano keyboard, black or white

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What word is defined as 'Two half steps'?

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Whole Step

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Interval

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The distance between any two pitches

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Different high and low tones

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Pitches

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Enharmonic pitch

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When one pitch/key/note has two different names

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Symbols that alter pitches by raising or lowering them by a half step or a whole step.

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Accidentals

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A distance of eight pitches apart; same pitch name.

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Octave

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A set of five horizontal lines and four spaces on which music symbols are notated.

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Staff